Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies

✍ Scribed by Hokyoung Ryu, Hokyoung Ryu, David Parsons

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Academia and industry have only begun to explore the vast capabilities that the emerging field of mobile learning has to enrich education. To help researchers and practitioners drive the realization of the potential benefits of mobile learning technology to the next level, a thorough survey of the state of knowledge in this ascending field is vital.
Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies is the first book to comprehensively set out opportunities presented by mobile learning technologies, collecting incisive research articles from leading international experts. Covering field challenges, practical experiences, and current technological advances, this unique contribution to the current research will benefit academics and students in a variety of education and technology-related disciplines, as well as industry specialists in the field mobile technology.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 4
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgment......Page 20
Designing Learning Activities
with Mobile Technologies......Page 22
Transforming the Practice of
Mobile Learning:
Promoting Pedagogical Innovation
through Educational Principles and
Strategies that Work......Page 42
Understanding the Value of
Interactive SMS for Large Classes......Page 69
Learning by Pervasive Gaming:
An Empirical Study......Page 81
iPods as Mobile Multimedia
Learning Environments:
Individual Differences and
Instructional Design......Page 104
From Individual Learning to
Collaborative Learning—
Location, Fun, and Games:
Place, Context, and Identity in
Mobile Learning......Page 123
Collaborative Technology
Impacts in Distributed Learning
Environments......Page 144
Constructing Mobile
Technology-Enabled
Environments for an Integrated
Learning Approach......Page 166
Collaboration in Context as a
Framework for Designing
Innovative Mobile
Learning Activities......Page 193
Participatory Simulation for
Collaborative Learning
Experiences......Page 218
Situated Learning with
SketchMap......Page 237
An Architecture for
a Personalized Mobile
Environment to Facilitate
Contextual Lifelong Learning......Page 253
Designing Situated Learning
Experiences......Page 276
Developing a Mobile Learning
Platform for a Professional
Environment......Page 294
Handheld Educational
Applications:
A Review of the Research......Page 323
Assessing the Benefits of
AJAX in Mobile Learning
Systems Design......Page 345
Recommended Readings
and Resources......Page 377
Glossary......Page 385
Compilation of References......Page 392
About the Contributors......Page 425
Index......Page 433